Synopsis

Colleen Dewhurst won an Emmy Award (as Outstanding Supporting Actress) for her starring role with Farrah Fawcett in this dramatic clash of wills between an overbearing, ex-opera diva mother and her schoolteacher daughter-in-law living under the same roof. The older woman is determined to retain her powers until cut down by a stroke, the younger one endeavors to learn her own strengths, and both forced by circumstance to come to terms in this adaptation of "Living Arrows," the Gillian Martin novel.